Rules for Using Linguistic Elements of Speech
A Resource and Interactive Workbook
Marjorie Feinstein-Whittaker and Lynda Katz Wilner
RULES is an innovative, comprehensive, cutting-edge approach to accent modification
designed for intermediate to advanced students. RULES takes training to the
next level for academic/professional excellence and career advancement.
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Through a Teacher's manual for classroom use and student workbooks for independent work, RULES addresses 23 critical and frequently confused rules - stress and intonation, pronunciation, and grammar.
- Field-tested with students and clients in the business/financial, high-technology, scientific and medical professions
- Incorporates vocabulary development activities into many of the units
- Includes rules for pronunciation of compound nouns, phrasal verbs, adjective + nouns, proper nouns, heteronyms, acronyms and initializations, syllable and sentence stress, numbers, reflexive pronouns, voicing and syllable length, linking, /t/ variations, Y-insertions, syllable reductions, past tense endings, -s endings, consonant blends and clusters, articles and demonstrative pronouns, and prepositions.
- Provides a comprehensive unit for practical activities designed for small groups incorporating the featured stress, intonation, and grammar rules.
Teacher's Edition
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- Extensive explanations of pronunciation, intonation/stress, and grammar rules
- Teaching notes and suggestions
- CD of PowerPoint slides and/or transparencies for classroom instruction
- CD of printable files of activities and answer keys for selected units
- Over 75 practical activities including telephone role-plays, conversational exchanges, calendar and appointment book communications, floor plans, menus, train schedules, doctor's appointments, To Do Lists, etc.
- Answer keys
- Pre- and post-testing in selected units
- Icons and italicized text for audio-accompanied items
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Student Edition
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- Summary chart for RULES
- 23 rules for stress and intonation, pronunciation, and grammar
- Pronunciation exercises
- Personal Introduction script for public speaking practice
- Options for personalizing social, academic, and work-related vocabulary
- Icons and italicized text for audio-accompanied items
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Audio CD Package (5
CDs)
- Over 5 hours of repetition exercises from each unit
- All audio items are in the student edition
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/t/ Variation Audio CD
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- An audio CD for the entire unit of /t/ Variations from the Student and Teacher's Editions
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Trainer Start-Up Package
- Value $259.95 Cost $245
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- RULES Teacher's Edition, RULES Student Edition, Audio Package (5)
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Classroom Set of 5 RULES
Student Editions
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- Set of 5 RULES Student Editions
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Classroom Set of 10
RULES Student Editions
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- Set of 10 RULES Student Editions
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